Wire screen.



l; G. ALLEN.

WIRE SCREEN.

- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1916.

Pzitented Feb. 6,1917.

JAMES G. ALLEN", OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR GE ONE-HALFTO HERBERT G.

FITTINGER, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WIRE SCREEN.

Application filed March 25, B16.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Jaime G. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Screens, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to collapsible or foldable fly screens and the primary object of my invention is to provide a window or door screen frame that may be easily and quickly collapsed or folded and the screen thereof rolled, whereby the entire structure will occupy a comparatively small space when not in use.

Another object of my invention is to provide a collapsible or foldable screen frame.

that will present a rigid structure when set up and may be manipulated in a window frame similar to an ordinary solid, rigid screen frame.

A further object of my invention is the provision of simple and effective means, in a manner as hereinafter set forth for maintaining a wire netting or screen taut in a frame which may be collapsed when it is desired to place the screen in storage.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a screen of the above type wherein the parts are constructed with a view of reducing the cost of manufacture and at the same time retain the features by which du rability and simplicity of construction are attained.

With these ends in view the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the inner side of a fly screen in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view of one of the side rails of the frame, showing a top or bottom rail folded relative thereto; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the outer side of a side frame of the screen; Fig. 4t is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line VV of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Feb. 6, 1911?.

Serial No. 86,574.

perspective view of a portion of the wire netting or screen showing the hook member; Fig. 7' is a cross sectional view of the same; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a portion of the wire netting or screen, and Figs. 9 and 10 are perspective views of the ends of channel members adapted to form a top or bottom rail of the screen frame.

In describing my invention by aid of the views above referred to, l desire to point out that the same are intended as merely illustrative of an example whereby my invention may be applied in practice, and I do not care to confine myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown. lhe following description is therefore to be broadly construed as including substitute constructions and arrangement of parts which are the obvious equivalent of those to be hereinafter referred to.

In the drawing, 1 denotes side rails having the inner edges thereof provided with handles 2 to facilitate moving said side rails into and out of engagement with the stiles or guides of a window frame. Each side rail has the outer side thereof provided with a plurality of studs 3, preferably in the form of screws, and said studs extend through slots or elongated openings l in side plates 5. The side plates 5 have channel edges 6 and lined in the channel edges of said side plates are the vertical edges of a wire net ting or screen 7.

As a matter of good construction, the vertical edges of the screen 7 are provided with channel binders 8 and between said binders and the edges of the screen are protecting strips 9, preferably made of felt 0r yieldable material which prevent the edges of the screen from being cracked or broken as the binders are placed in engagement th :ewith. Each of the side plates or slide plates 5, intermediate the ends thereof, has an inset portion 10 holding the spring 11 and the ends of said spring bear against a flange or edge of the side rail, which is formed by recessing or cutting away the side rail as at 12, see Fig. 3. The springs 11 hold the slide plates 5 in an extended position relative to the side rails 1.

The side rails 1 are connected by collapsible or foldable top and bottom rails and nel member, and this diii'erence in size permits of the end of the member 15 extending into the end of the member 1%, when said members longitudinally aline, as shown in Fig. 1. The edges 01 the members 1 and 15 are turned or flanged, as at 17, the flanges of the member 1% being cut away, as at 18, whereby the edges of the member 1 1 may extend under the flanges of the member 15, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The ends of the channel members 15 are provided with slots 19 to receive tongues 20 carried by ends of the members 14, and in addition to the tongue and slot connections, there are bosses or protuberances 21 on the member 14 adapted to snap into recesses or depressions 22 in the member 15.

Those edges of the screen 7 not connected to. the slide plates 5 are provided with hook members 23, said hook members being s0me-- what in the form of staples that can be clenched in engagement with the meshes of the screen. The hook members 23 are adapted to engage under the flanges 17 of the members 14-. and 15, when said members are in an extended position as shown in Fig. 1, consequently the screen 7 can be maintained taut in the frame formed by the sides, top and bottom rails.

To collapse or fold the screen, the interlocked ends of the members 14 and 15 are separated after the hook members 23 are dis engaged. The members 1 1 and 15 are then swung into parallelism with the side rails 1 and by using one of said side rails as a roller, the screen 7 may be rolled up to occupy a comparatively small space when not in use. It is an extremely easy matter to set up the screen, as the opening movement of the members 1% and 15 is limited by the pivoted ends of said members contacting with the ends of the side rails 1 and the other ends of said members can be easily interlocked and the hook members 23 placed in engagement with the flanges thereof. The side rails 1 being spring pressed relative to the slide plates 5, permit of the side edges of the screen frame being easily sprung into position against the stiles or guides of a window frame and then the screen frame can be raised and lowered if necessary.

What I claim is V r r 1. A collapsible screen comprlslng side rails, adjustable slide plates carried thereby,

a screen having edges permanently attached to said slide plates, members pivotally c0nnectecl to the ends of said slide plates and adapted to have the other ends thereof interlock, and means carried by edges of said screen whereby said screen may be attached to said members.

2. A screen comprising side rails, slide plates carried thereby, a screen having the edges thereof connected to said slideplates, channel members pivotally connected to the ends of said slide plates and adapted to have the other ends thereof fit one within the other and interlocked together, and hook members carried by edges of said screen and adapted to detachably engage said members.

3. A collapsible screen comprising side rails, spring pressed adjustable slide plates carried thereby, a screen having the edges thereof attached to said slide plates, channel members pivotally connected to the ends of said slide plates and limited in their opening movement by the ends'ol said side rails, means adapted for connecting the ends of said members, and means carried by said screen whereby the edges thereof may be de-' tachably connected to said members.

4. A collapsible screen comprising side,

'top and bottom rails, said top and bottom rails being composed of channel members pivotally connected to said side rails and ada ted to be placed in longitudinal alinement to coperate with said side rails in forming a rectangular frame, means for connecting the confronting ends of said members, and a screen having the edges thereof held by said side rails and detachably held by the members of said top and bottom rails.

A collapsible screen comprising side rails, slice plates carried thereby, a screen connected to said slide plates and adapted for rolling on one of said side rails, mem-- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

